• Rumour: George Lucas to kill the original trilogy completely.
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[quote]Now, we hate to perpetuate rumors that may not have any basis in reality, but this latest bit of "Star Wars" left-field scuttlebutt has intrigued us because, well, it kinda makes sense. And if George Lucas isn't, in fact, planning on doing what this rumor claims he's planning on doing, he may want to consider it. We're talking about nuking the Star Wars universe. Or, more specifically, erasing the original trilogy and all its goodness from the world for good. The rumor - which, again, is extremely tenuous - claims that the in-development live-action "Star Wars" TV series (which Lucas claims has "over 50 hours" worth of scripts just sitting on a shelf, waiting) will begin with a group of bounty hunters discovering a way to travel through time. Armed with this new-found ability, they head back to the Clone Wars era and prevent Anakin Skywalker from becoming Darth Vader. So Anakin doesn't become Vader. He raises his twins, Luke and Leia, in a loving (if whiny) household. THE EVENTS OF THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY NEVER HAPPEN. Before you scoff at this notion, remember one very important thing: George Lucas does not love the original movies. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to suggest he outright hates them. What better way for him to force his vision of a prequel-only canon than by literally erasing the original films and their pesky "you know, the good Star Wars movies" qualifier? Consider this: Lucas really doesn't like people playing in his sandbox, especially when they do better stuff with his toys than he does. Even though he doesn't actually enjoy the process of directing, he can't fully hand over the reins either. You know all that tinkering he does, with his special editions and super-special editions, and blu-ray special editions? The prequels remain largely untouched, but the original films (only one of which he directed) are pawed over endlessly, each change more asinine than the last (from "Greedo shoots first" to "ghost of young Anakin"). And when he allowed animation star and "Samurai Jack" creator Genndy Tartakovsky to create his own "Star Wars" character, what happened? Genndy gave us an unstoppable, Jedi-slaughtering terminator named General Grievous. He was SO cool, that Lucas immediately added him to the live-action "Revenge of the Sith." But not before, you know, reducing him to a wheezing, hunched-over, cowardly, and ultimately useless villain. That'll teach ya, Genndy! Also, the one thing Lucas does embrace are parodies. He gave "Robot Chicken" and "Family Guy" carte blanche (even the use of music and sound effects) so that they could, effectively, crap all over the original films. (Count how many prequel parodies either entity has done. Exactly). Lucas even included the parodies on the "Star Wars Saga" Blu-ray! Speaking of the Blu-ray…if the box art doesn't tell you all you need to know… All these years, we thought these people were kind of important: Silly us. Clearly they are not nearly as vital to the story as Jar-Jar Binks, Boba Fett's dad, and a faceless clone trooper. So we say, let this rumor be true! Let George Lucas rid himself of a legacy he can't possibly live up to anymore. If he wants to believe that the "Star Wars" movies are just middling kids' entertainment (because kids LOVE plots built around government corruption and trade disputes, you know), let him. It's better for everyone. Nuke the fridge, George, and let's all move on. Because this is how George Lucas views the "Star Wars" universe, and everyone should stop pretending otherwise:[/quote] [url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46240597/ns/local_news-san_francisco_bay_area_ca/#.TzlGCVFnCK9]Source[/url] What the fu
I wouldn't doubt it at this point.
Jesus. Let it fucking go.
it's ok original trilogy i will always love you more
Star Wars was never good in the first place.
I don't see why this is a big deal, or a bad thing at all. I think a separate "what-if" kind of show would be cool. A lot of Star Wars fans just hate George Lucas and love to cry and bitch about everything.
As long as he doesn't come round my house and take the blu-rays away from me he can do what he wants.
I'd just treat it as a weird alternate reality/comedic spin-off.
So rather than just editing it out by slowly replacing the whole film with CGI, he's just going to out right remove it from star wars history. Well I guess that's a quicker way of doing it I guess.
I doubt it, even Lucas knows that would be too far.
[QUOTE=Scot;34680575]Star Wars was never good in the first place.[/QUOTE] aside from being one of the greatest marvels in film technology at the time? okay
Incoming flame wars, hit the deck. In all seriousness, who the fuck cares. If George wants to do something different with his series, let him and stop watching it. You've had your original series, you can still watch them in all their glory, nothing can change that.
Uhh. I can see that he might have disdain for the original series, but time travel to erase the events of the series from ever happening? Either that's bull, or Lucas likes him some DBZ Trunks. (not to insinuate that there aren't plenty of other series with time travel hijinks, just the first to come to mind :v:)
[QUOTE=Scot;34680575]Star Wars was never good in the first place.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/SaborWolf/coachie.jpg[/IMG] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Dumb reaction image reply." - postal))[/highlight] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Dumb reaction image reply." - postal))[/highlight]
inb4 shitstorm most critics agree that original trilogy is better.
[QUOTE=TDocter;34680608]Incoming flame wars, hit the deck. In all seriousness, who the fuck cares. If George wants to do something different with his series, let him and stop watching it. You've had your original series, you can still watch them in all their glory, nothing can change that.[/QUOTE] Actually we can't watch them in all their glory because he keeps putting shitty edits on the DVD copies.
[QUOTE=Scot;34680575]Star Wars was never good in the first place.[/QUOTE] Star Trek Master Race.
I swear, it's only a mater of time before her starts doing this to everyone. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF02VoDQSd0[/media]
haha george lucas just just stop you're awful just quit now before you do something REALLY stupid
So he's erasing the original trilogy to make room for his live action series? What the fuck?
[quote]"Star Wars" TV series (which Lucas claims has "over 50 hours" worth of scripts just sitting on a shelf, waiting) will begin with a group of bounty hunters discovering a way to travel through time. Armed with this new-found ability, they head back to the Clone Wars era and prevent Anakin Skywalker from becoming Darth Vader.[/quote] Haha, ok enough with the shitty fan-fictions, can we get George in here to let us know what the new Star wars TV show will actually be about?
[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;34680635]haha george lucas just just stop you're awful just quit now before you do something REALLY stupid[/QUOTE] Couldn't agree more. I love how seems to enjoy the wholesale butchering of the series.
Lucus is fucking senile.
Expect Mr. Lucas to be assassinated by a neckbeard with a sniper rifle if this happens.
If he does it, I'll flip shit.
[QUOTE=TDocter;34680608]Incoming flame wars, hit the deck. In all seriousness, who the fuck cares. If George wants to do something different with his series, let him and stop watching it. You've had your original series, you can still watch them in all their glory, nothing can change that.[/QUOTE] The fact they are no longer canon is devastating for people, it makes them feel like it never really did happen, and doesn't matter.
What the actual fuck.
George Lucas is the reason I refuse to buy the original trilogy on blu-ray. I'll just stick to the vhs and early dvd versions.
But he's retired
Wow, George is actually a cunt.
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